and 0bama takes another one in the.................................HA ha!!!
Posted on 03/12/2009 8:58:08 AM PDT by FoxInSocks
WASHINGTON - Two officials in the D.C.'s Office of the Chief Technology Officer have been arrested in a federal bribery sting, sources tell WTOP.
D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Officer employees Sushil Bansal and 40-year-old Yusuf Acar have been arrested, sources tell WTOP.
Acar was taken into custody Thursday morning by FBI agents at his home in Northwest D.C.
The FBI is now serving a search warrant at the office of D.C.'s Chief Technology Officer, WTOP has learned.
"We are there as part of a continuing ongoing criminal investigation," FBI Washington Field Office spokesperson Katherine Schweit tells WTOP.
Schweit would not comment on the details of the investigation.
More than a dozen FBI agents - including evidence technicians - at the office, located at 1 Judiciary Square on 4th Street in Northwest, WTOP's Mark Segraves reports.
Most of the employees have been told to go home. Other employees have been segregated into a waiting room.
Segraves reports the FBI's search has expanded from 9th floor offices to 10th floor offices.
A spokesman for D.C.'s U.S. Attorney tells WTOP he cannot discuss the investigation, as it is currently sealed.
On March 5, President Barack Obama named D.C. Chief Technology Officer Vivek Kundra as the federal government's chief information officer.
Kundra's last day was March 4.
Kundra, who was in charge of technology in the District since 2007, has been a consultant to Obama since he won the election.
Source: Obama official on leave after FBI raids
Source: Obama technology official on leave after FBI raids his old DC office, arrests 2
WASHINGTON (AP) — An aide to President Barack Obama is on leave from his White House job after the FBI raided his old District of Columbia government office Thursday, arresting a city employee and a technology consultant on corruption charges, a White House official said.
The charges were lodged against the two men at a federal court hearing as the FBI finished searching the city’s technology office, which was led until recently by Obama’s new computer chief, Vivek Kundra.
Kundra is on leave from his White House job until further details of the case become known, according to a White House official speaking on condition of anonymity because the official did not want to publicly discuss personnel matters.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Source-Obama-official-on-apf-14623083.html
Source: Obama official on leave after FBI raids
Will it be BREAKING NEWS on all networks for a few weeks?
You know...like with Pres Bush.
Source: Obama technology official on leave after FBI raids his old DC office, arrests 2<<<
Ping.
“Kundra has not been linked to Thursday’s raid.
Yusuf Acar, 40, acting chief security officer of the D.C. Office of the CTO, was charged with bribery of a public official, money laundering, wire fraud and conflict of interest.
Acar was ordered held without bond until a hearing Tuesday.
FBI agents found $70,000 in Acar’s Northwest D.C. home when they arrested him Thursday morning.
Acar, a native of Turkey, is responsible for buying D.C.’s computer equipment and hiring contract workers for various D.C. agencies. Acar, who has been with the agency since December 2004, has an annual salary of $127,468, according to charging documents.
Sushil Bansal, President and CEO of Advanced Integrated Technologies Corporation (AITC) and a former D.C. government employee, was charged with bribery of a public official, money laundering, wire fraud and conflict of interest.
Bansal, 41, was released but ordered not to engage in overseas financial transactions and had to surrender his passport. Bansal, of Dunn Loring, Va., is due back in court on April 21.
Government records show Bansal, a native of India, is not a U.S. citizen and holds an H-1B visa, which is given to foreign workers in specialty occupations”
http://wtop.com/?nid=596&sid=1622618
An H1B in charge of System Security in the District of Columbia IT.
Sleep well, America. Watch a rerun of American Idle.
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LOVE it!
FBI Raids Office of DC CTO Obama Appointee
Politico | March 9, 2009 | Ben Smith
Posted on 03/12/2009 7:52:21 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2205044/posts
Perhaps the details will come out in due time. Perhaps not.
Better that than a Kenyan national occupying the White House.
Most corrupt regime I have ever seen. (i’m 46)
Thank god so much has still come to light that these tax cheats and criminals are stepping down or being arrested.
Maybe there is hope left for us.
I still firmly believe that Obama’s B.C. needs investigation and that pushing this matter will force him to leave office.
She certainly taught Obama well.
Just the irony of it would be great!
When all of those you appoint are dirty it is much much easier to control them. The threat to expose one’s indiscretions can be a powerful motivator to keep the appointee on a tight leash. (For all we know some of them may enjoy being on leashes being paraded about in leather and fishnets)
Sooooo...Americans with the names of Jones or Smith or Johnson or Nelson couldn’t be found to be adequate employees of such a sensitive department????
Impeached after 3 months in office... Sounds nice!”
I really don’t want impeachment.
I want him removed due to lack of eligibility in the first place.
That will make NULL & VOID everything he has signed.
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